SEC Will Decide Bitcoin ETF Approval/Rejection After 5 November

The United States Securities and Exchanges Commission had set 5 November as a deadline for reviewing remarks about the 9 ETFs that were rejected in August. After this date, they will be announcing their decision about this nine ETFs.

The next day SEC withdrew their announcement saying that they will review the “Division’s actions pursuant to the delegated authority” Stating:

“On October 4, 2018, the Commission issued an Order Scheduling of Statements on Review, setting November 5, 2018, as the date by which any party or other person may file a statement in support of, or in opposition to, the action by the Division pursuant to delegated authority”

The crypto community is anxiously waiting for the ETF decision, with many thinking that an ETF approval by SEC will start a bull run, and many others thinking that this will have a negative effect. Those who see ETF as a positive thing think that ETFs will provide easy access for institutional investors. On the other side, those who see ETFs as a negative thing have a theory, that this will increase artificially the liquidity making it a tool to suppress the price, since the exchanges will not need to hold any real cryptocurrency, but will be very effective shorting cryptocurrencies.

Reggie Brown, otherwise known as Godfather of ETF, said that he doesn’t see the SEC approving the Bitcoin ETF at any point in the near future. As indicated by Business Insider, amid a speech in the Financial Markets Quality Conference at Georgetown University’s he said that the Bitcoin ETF won’t be approved”no time soon”. He included:

“It’s very difficult for the Commission to wrap their heads around a positive approval because there’s no data yet… the markets just aren’t here.”

What do you think about ETFs? Will it help cryptocurrency go mainstream or it will suppress the price leaving the crypto world for a long time in a bear market?